From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <9779b6c3-acd6-10aa-b9ca-c024cd77a861@zytor.com> <2984302.a0WA3y5s5U@avalon> From: Dave Taht Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 19:00:57 -0700 Message-ID: To: "H. Peter Anvin" Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Tech Board Discuss , Kernel Summit Discussions , ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [Tech-board-discuss] Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board election results 2017 List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 5:23 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 10/26/17 00:14, Laurent Pinchart wrote: >> >>> It was a very close election, with the next candidate on the list >>> receiving 36 votes. >> >> Do we have a procedure in place in case the tie that we only avoided by = one >> vote would have happened ? >> > > In that case thw winner(s) would be drawn randomly. The scanning tool > scripts actually assigns each candidate a tiebreaker number via > /dev/urandom, but we have not yet decided if we would do that or, for > example, a physical coin toss. Once upon a time, Heinlein, it was, I think, suggested that a candidate for office be picked entirely randomly from the pool. The lottery concept - the idea that if you ran, you had a small chance of serving no matter the popular vote - encouraged participation. > > We have had ties in the past, and had one this time too, but none that > has ever crossed the cut line. > > -hpa > > _______________________________________________ > Tech-board-discuss mailing list > Tech-board-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org > https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/tech-board-discuss --=20 Dave T=C3=A4ht CEO, TekLibre, LLC http://www.teklibre.com Tel: 1-669-226-2619